When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.
Real life seems to have no plots.
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.